Good Tuesday Morning Everybody!

Good Tuesday Morning Everybody! How is everyone today? Things are good on this end. Still getting all my water, protein, supplements and exercise in. In not sure if the darn scale has moved at all (I've decided I'm not going to look every day, OneHundredNinetySomething Pounds, be damnded). We'll see when I weigh in on Friday morning. So what's up in your world? I'm working "early" days this week. I have contractor's putting a porch on the front of my house...yippee!!!! (finally after months of waiting). I'm planning to workout on the torture machine (my cute nickname for the elliptical trainer that I have at home) this evening. I've been going to the gym and working with weights for 1-1.25 hours plus doing 20-40 minutes of cardio at the gym every other day. The days I don't go to the gym, I use the elliptical at home. I've made progress at the gym. In two weeks I've increased the weights/reps that I'm doing. I don't know what the heck I'm doing....if you're ever at Gold's and you see this woman with a slightly dazed and confused look on her face (toting the paper with the amount of reps/weights around with her) that would be me...stop and say "Hello" Well I've got to get moving here...busy, busy, busy here at work these days. Have a Wonderful Day! Take Care, Terry

Good Morning Terry! Wow, your early. Today - SSDD. Heading out at 5:30 AM to drop off daughter and two others at school for drill team practice. Doing morning school bus run, doing mid-day field trip, doing afternoon run. Coming home to sit around in a comatose state, and then listening to my sons one hour drum lesson. That should wake me up! Nothing this evening, except a walk with hubby. Hope your porch turns out exactly the way you want it. I love a front porch. We enjoy our front deck so much. Have a good one! TraciL

Good morning Terry I'm finishing up my iced coffee/protein shake here and wishing I could go home and go back to bed. I am sure that once I get into things here the day will FLY by but at the moment 4:30 seems awfully far away. We had a preliminary meeting yesterday on the proposals that I've been working on evaluating. The good news is that all of us on the committee are in pretty much agreement on the basic ranking. Now I just have to get my 'formal' thoughts put together and put numbers on things. I'm glad we only have to do this every 5 years or so. I may be able to 'miss' the next time .. or it will be one of the last things I do before I retire. Left the office at 2:15 yesterday to go to a MACPA meeting/CPE thingy at Kaufman's in Gambrills. Had plans to meet a friend who hasn't seen me since 2 weeks after my surgery at his retirement party. After the meeting we had a nice time chatting over crabs and I think I've finally had my fill of crabs for the year. Picking them at least .. I think I'll stick to crab cakes from now on. (and Tia ... I did try your mother's way .. well .. sort of her way ... I ad libbed, and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't .. I guess I need to practice some more .. ) Have nails tonight after work and Mr Mo says he's going to be late .. but I'm not sure exactly what that means .. he may still beat me home if I go grocery shopping after nails ... I saw a REALLY ugly number on the scale this a.m. I know that the numbers have crept up a bit but this was a HUGE jump ..not a creep ... I'm confident that it's water weight .. all the seasoning on the crabs and the fluids I consumed yesterday and last night .. but I have to get my act in gear and shake those pounds and get back to my low so I can go lower. I am getting resolved that when I get back from vacation and my trip to Chicago in October I will check out Big Vanilla and see if the 'gym' routine is for me. Have a good one! Hugs, Mo

HELLLPPP! It keeps telling me it's saved my post successfully but neither of them are here!! WAAAHHH! Tia

I think they are now !! Your LONG post is posted twice here (that I can see). I saw it twice earlier, then it disappeared, but now it's back again. OH must be having some issues this a.m. Hugs, Mo

Thanks, Mo! Sorry I subjected everybody to me twice!!!! Tia

Okay, well, I posted a reaaalllly long one, it said okay - um, hello? Where is it? Not doing it again! Maybe it'll show up somewhere!!! Tia

Good Morning! Glad to hear everyone's well. It's shaping up to be a quiet week, TG!!! Working a full week this week - WHAT'S THAT? But I'm off next Friday, which is the day before Mom comes home from SC - I'm going to use that day to TRY to organize our spare/junk bedroom. I need to get things bagged up/trashed before she gets home to root through the garbage. Yes, I'm sad to say, she's a packrat and she's been known to root through the garbage!! So I find that as long as it's out of the house, she won't root through the outside garbage!!! She leaves on 9/23 and will be back on 9/30 - a looonnng week for me, but she deserves to get away from us - really, from Dad!!! Molly the Beagle will miss her, too! Her being away means that I'll have the kids on Saturday from 6:30 - 6:30 - someone may want to check on me during the day to make sure I'm not duct taped/tied up!!! Actually, we're going to go to a Halloween store to try to finish up Kaity's vampire costume; Brian's all done. I found this really cool material in Joann's Fabrics the other day - Kaity pointed out that it looked like dryer-sheet fabric, so I thought I might buy enough to wrap around me - do they sell it that big? Then, I was going to pin some odd socks and some dust balls on me - OMG! do I need to get a life or what???? Anyway, I thought it was a cute idea, one that any of you are free to borrow!!! Then, being Kaity & Brian's favorite sucker, I'm sure we'll go somewhere for lunch, and to a playground, although they're calling for rain, so we'll see. Sunday will be spent recovering!!! I thought you all might like to know that I'm sleeping with Vince Gill and am flying out on Southwest today to meet him at his next concert stop in Minnesota!!!! WTH!!!! Welcome to the Wacky World of Tia's Dreams!!!!! BTW, I also slept with the guy whose tapes I transcribed over the weekend! Man, my dreams see more action than my real life ever has hopes of!!!!! Gary always asks, "What the hell did you eat?"" But I think the Vince Gill dream was prompted by a Grand Ole Opry/Vince Gill ornament I saw in a store the other day, and the other dream was prompted by the fact that the guy (who is a good friend of mine) whose tapes I transcribed has a voice like melted milk chocolate over peanuts!!!! Wow!! I need a cigarette!!!! Terry, you are my exercise heroine! I've decided that on the days that I can't/don't want to make it to the gym, that I'm going to do my Walk Away the Pounds tape at home - I really have no excuse not to exercise in the comfort of my home!! Good luck with the porch - I LOVE sitting on ours, provided that there are no skeeters and that our Indian neighbor's not cooking curry - ICK!!! Mo, I think I've got one more crab eating session left in me!!! Traci, yep, that hour-long drum session ought to wake you right up!!!!! Hope everyone has a great day! Tia

Good Morning! Glad to hear everyone's well. It's shaping up to be a quiet week, TG!!! Working a full week this week - WHAT'S THAT? But I'm off next Friday, which is the day before Mom comes home from SC - I'm going to use that day to TRY to organize our spare/junk bedroom. I need to get things bagged up/trashed before she gets home to root through the garbage. Yes, I'm sad to say, she's a packrat and she's been known to root through the garbage!! So I find that as long as it's out of the house, she won't root through the outside garbage!!! She leaves on 9/23 and will be back on 9/30 - a looonnng week for me, but she deserves to get away from us - really, from Dad!!! Molly the Beagle will miss her, too! Her being away means that I'll have the kids on Saturday from 6:30 - 6:30 - someone may want to check on me during the day to make sure I'm not duct taped/tied up!!! Actually, we're going to go to a Halloween store to try to finish up Kaity's vampire costume; Brian's all done. I found this really cool material in Joann's Fabrics the other day - Kaity pointed out that it looked like dryer-sheet fabric, so I thought I might buy enough to wrap around me - do they sell it that big? Then, I was going to pin some odd socks and some dust balls on me - OMG! do I need to get a life or what???? Anyway, I thought it was a cute idea, one that any of you are free to borrow!!! Then, being Kaity & Brian's favorite sucker, I'm sure we'll go somewhere for lunch, and to a playground, although they're calling for rain, so we'll see. Sunday will be spent recovering!!! I thought you all might like to know that I'm sleeping with Vince Gill and am flying out on Southwest today to meet him at his next concert stop in Minnesota!!!! WTH!!!! Welcome to the Wacky World of Tia's Dreams!!!!! BTW, I also slept with the guy whose tapes I transcribed over the weekend! Man, my dreams see more action than my real life ever has hopes of!!!!! Gary always asks, "What the hell did you eat?"" But I think the Vince Gill dream was prompted by a Grand Ole Opry/Vince Gill ornament I saw in a store the other day, and the other dream was prompted by the fact that the guy (who is a good friend of mine) whose tapes I transcribed has a voice like melted milk chocolate over peanuts!!!! Wow!! I need a cigarette!!!! Terry, you are my exercise heroine! I've decided that on the days that I can't/don't want to make it to the gym, that I'm going to do my Walk Away the Pounds tape at home - I really have no excuse not to exercise in the comfort of my home!! Good luck with the porch - I LOVE sitting on ours, provided that there are no skeeters and that our Indian neighbor's not cooking curry - ICK!!! Mo, I think I've got one more crab eating session left in me!!! Traci, yep, that hour-long drum session ought to wake you right up!!!!! Hope everyone has a great day! Tia

OH isn't the only one having issues this AM! I am full of issues, so full I need a subscription...Yesterday was a BUSY day in Baltimore County. I left work early to ride at my fire house and we were so busy that we left the station at 230p and did not get bac****il after 1030p last night. I think we did a total of 7 calls...some were very sick and I don't think one will make it. Got up at 6a this morning and went for my lovely annual female check up. Had to stock up on my prescription of birth control...no babies yet for me!!! BTW, that is fine in my books! I have my "1 month" (actually it will be 6 weeks) post-op appointment with DVR tomorrow!!!! And for the first time since graduation I am below 350 (and that was per the scale at my GYN's office)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That means I hit my personal goal...!!! YAY me!!!! Well, guess I better get back to doing some kind of work. Really don't want to, but got to! Leslie